where does bss come from?

[Jim Webb]

> 
> 	Could someone please tell me where the name BSS comes from.
> The comments in /usr/include/a.out.h says that it is uninitialized
> data. What's the connection?
> 

It was, until divestiture, a Bell System Secret :-)

Actually, though, it is the mnemonic from some arcane assembler that
dealt with data segments and/or symbols.
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